Busy Weekend

Where do I start?  I know, a lovely child-less dinner at Tomasos pizza on Friday night.  Nice.  Saturday rolled around and it was time to brew. Newly educated all-grain brewers, Glen, I and a cadre of wanna-be brew masters all huddled in the chilly Schroeder garage for an afternoon of brewing beer.  Cream Ale.

Being the jet setter I am,  I bid adieu to my craft-brew clan around 2:30. I know they could handle it.... I had another party to attend.  In Ixonia.  Just Kiki and I.   While we munch on birthday cup cakes, Tracy is at a bridal shower (snore).  Joel is off to Prom.

This is Junior Prom so it's more informal for this group of seniors.  Good looking bunch of young adults.

Being the awesome dad that I can be, I let Joel take the Mach Five instead of the Mystery Machine  (some old school cartoon references for ya).  Of course I had an auto cross event the next day.  I hear to Mach Five rumble into the garage around 2:30 (yea that's AM).  Three hours later I am in the garage putting my racing tires on and am off to Miller Park.  I did not even wake Spritle up to help change wheels.  Thanks Pops!  

A long and cold day ensued.  Racer X could only pull a 3rd place in class, with my best run of 72 seconds.  

That's ok, it's all about consistency.  That's how I won this last year:

Yep - all the talk and now I finally picked up the hardware to go with it.  Award winning driver.  That's me.  Anyway, over 12 hours later I get home, tired and wicked wind/sunburn to boot.  Cloud cover and 45 degrees you never even think about sunscreen. Oh and because I am being super awesome, on the way home I picked up a huge bag of Oakland Gyros for dinner. Hero right there.   And that was the end of this busy weekend.

Shout out and thanks to my brother Jim.  He came out in less than nice conditions to watch me make a few runs.  The support was nice to have.  I think we may get him out there in the Mazda this year!